David Freedlander is a veteran New York City-based journalist. He writes long-form features about politics and the arts, people and ideas, and has appeared in New York Magazine, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, ArtNews, The Daily Beast, Newsweek and a host of other publications.
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A massive online campaign that raised over $20 million in a matter of weeks in the hopes of providing Congress with the money to build a border wall is abruptly ending that effort
As Democrats size up the field, Monday’s speech is a reminder to keep an eye on what the various candidates have already done. Cuomo will enter the 2020 campaign season with a record of accomplishment likely beyond anybody else’s. Whether he will be there in the field, making the case for himself as a declared candidate, is another matter.
But if Bloomberg really wants to put the billion or so he can spend on a presidential run to good use, he will turn in his new party membership, re-register as a Republican, and do battle with Trump in the GOP primary, not the Democratic one.
He seemed too snarling to ever be the kind of politician the left could fall in love with, too calculating for an era that prizes authenticity above all else. But he took dead aim at Donald Trump on Tuesday night, laying out a vision for the country that looks very different from his fellow Queens native.
“We cannot cast aside what is good in pursuit of what is perfect.”
Energized progressives are thrilled with their momentum in the Trump era. But the party’s blue-collar base might not want what the new left is delivering.
Politics wins. Good, old-fashioned door-knocking and organizing and phone banking and precinct-walking wins.
The onetime shoo-in for state attorney general worries that anti-Establishment fervor will undo all her dues paying.
Progressive favorite Zephyr Teachout promises to retool the powerful New York prosecutor’s office to go straight after Donald Trump. She’s not the only one. Is this the road Democrats want to go down?
In a world which seems to give politicians nothing but second chances, Joe Ganim tests the boundaries of patience
It was us! We did this! We put the fear into King Cuomo! Get fired up because we are at war!
Instead, the 2018 Democratic Party State Convention began with a PowerPoint address. Followed by another.
what was at first shaping up into an all-out political brawl is quickly becoming a more predictable political rac
Eric Schneiderman was never the most likely attorney general for New York
Crazy man or chess master? 4 hours with Donald Trump’s wildest adviser.
On Tuesday, Bill de Blasio will crush his opponents, become the first Democrat to win reelection as mayor of New York City since 1985, and deliver a grievous blow to Donald Trump and his odious agenda for America.
At least that is how de Blasio is selling it
Cy Vance’s glide path to reelection as Manhattan district attorney has hit a speed bump.
Trump’s Cabinet nominees were toxic enough to need outside help—and wealthy or connected enough to afford it.
